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Even without the decrease in admissions, the Class of 2012 was set to be the most selective in Harvard history. Applications for regular admission to the College ballooned over 18 percent this year, meaning that even if the normal number of applicants were accepted, the admission rate could have dipped as low as 7.7 percent, down from 9.1 percent last year...
...well, doomed to sport a pig nose until she finds true love. To hide her daughter’s ugliness and protect her from the press, her mother, played by Catherine O’Hara (“Home Alone”), does “what any normal mother would do”: She takes out the eye of invading paparazzo Lemon (Peter Dinklage, “The Station Agent”), fakes baby Penelope’s death, and locks the girl up in the family’s country estate. As soon as Penelope turns...
...difficult to lead a normal life with the paparazzi? -Bob Garrett, Albany, N.Y.I'm relatively lucky, though it does get worse and worse. There are choices you can make about where you live that help. I really don't enjoy being in Los Angeles or certain parts of London. New York is getting pretty rough too, because anyone who can get a camera can be a photographer...
...recent book, “Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation,” Yale psychiatrist Charles Barber argues that Americans have come to rely on psychiatric medications to solve even the most benign and normal of emotional ills. He isn’t the first to make this claim. Since the 1993 publication of Peter Kramer’s “Listening to Prozac”—which stated, deceptively, that Prozac could not only make depressed people feel better, but that it could make people feel “better than well...
...Simply put, these medications won’t do any good unless your brain is unhealthy in very specific ways. Moreover, the notion of “better than well” is an optimistic myth: medications for psychiatric disorders enable people to feel normal, not better than normal. Antidepressants bring people from the hell of severe depression to a sense of being able to function normally; they aren’t magic happy pills. Similarly, they don’t make normal and appropriate feelings of sadness (or anxiety or anger) go away; a person whose brain chemistry...